Official: Fukushima “destroyed our life… it can destroy history itself” — Professor: “Very hard to imagine a future beyond Fukushima, it’s so uncontainable” — Filmmaker: Meltdowns “opened up a fissure in time and space… Horror of radiation menaces the future in the present” (VIDEOS)

Anjalika Sagar (at 2:00 in): Things have got much worse — and at the same time that things have got much worse, you have an accelerated form of secrecy relating to the level of the contamination in food products, in the sea… We were interested in… the politics of how disposable this population has become… Where the threat of the earthquakes could possibly contaminate the whole of Japan, which has happened…

Kodwo Eshun: We made a distinction between the nature of an accident and the nature of a catastrophe… The idea is that an accident is located in time and space… the earthquake and tsunami are a terrible tragic instance, but they are accidents. The catastrophe is potentially unlimited in time and space… The [meltdowns are] a catastrophe that opened up a fissure in time and space both in the past and in the present and in the future. So that what seems to be past is no longer past, but becomes present in a new way. And similarly what hasn’t happened yet is menaced by this moment… The horror of inhabiting radiation is that it menaces the future in the present. And it makes the future hostile in the present. So that mothers cannot be certain the babies they will have will not mutants. It makes the question of mutation — which is a core fantasy of science fiction, for comics, for superheroes — take on a real world effect… Very few people trusted the Japanese government anymore…. What we heard… was this notion of Japan as a laboratory, the notion of the citizens of Japan as guinea pigs. The sense that the Japanese government are carrying out an experiment in which they are calculating the levels at which people will revolt, and the levels at which people will accept their fate.

Katsutaka Idogawa, Mayor of Futaba, Fukushima during 3/11: “I’m really ashamed for my country, but I have to speak the truth for the sake of keeping our planet clean in the future… The same thing happened with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The authorities lied to everyone. They said it was safe. They hid the truth. That’s the situation we are living in. It’s not just Fukushima. Japan has a lot of dark history, what’s happening now is sort of a sacrifice to the past.” >> Watch here

Professor Norma Field, University of Chicago: “One can imagine a future beyond [the earthquake and tsunami]. It is very hard to imagine a future beyond the nuclear disaster of Fukushima. It is so uncontrollable — uncontainable — and that is why it gets left out of all the official and entertainment discourses. You have to be impassioned about it, and then you find a while lot. Especially on the internet.” >> Watch here

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The 10,000 MW nuclear power plant, which is being set up by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), at Kovvada in Srikakulam district, could prove to be vulnerable to natural calamities such as cyclone Hudhud that devastated the three coastal districts recently just with its wind speed that reportedly crossed the 240 kmph barrier, according to former Union Energy Secretary E.A.S. Sarma.

“We are lucky that cyclone Hudhud was a dry tropical cyclone and was not associated with heavy rainfall and sea surge. Normally, cyclones of this magnitude bring larger devastation with tidal waves. And Kovvada plant is a bang on the coast and falls in the usual route of these tropical cyclones. Sea water flooding can give us another Fukushima on our coast,” said Mr. Sarma.

According to Mr. Sarma, as it is the plant is vulnerable to earthquakes, as four seismic fault lines run through the area, where the plant is being set-up.

The former bureaucrat pointed out that Kovvada Site Selection Committee had recommended a 300-km radius tectonic study, which was never taken up.

… The Abe government’s policies on nuclear power generation are based on the assumption that the recycling program will be maintained. If the government decides to scrap the rickety program, it could be forced to abolish nuclear power plants….

… if it becomes difficult to implement the reprocessing program, JNFL must remove the spent nuclear fuel that has accumulated at the still-incomplete reprocessing plant.

The logical places to transfer that spent nuclear fuel are the nuclear plants where the fuel was originally used. But spent fuel storage pools at these plants are already nearing capacity, and the plants could be forced to shut down to avoid creating additional nuclear waste…

The Melbourne cup horse race was run in Australia today.
The favourite, Admire Ratki, a japanese horse, was strongly supported to win. The horse started strongly but half way through the race dropped back from second position and finished 25 lengths behind the second last contender, then collapsed and died in its stable minutes later from a suspected heart attack.

It's typical to die of heart attack by radiation all over Fukushima and surrounding areas, and I guess the horses too, cats too…and it's all covered up but they bring a horse over here from Japan or it's just a Japanese horse?

It's definitely important to know how many other race horses died of heart attack while raced or ran …hard to compare….I don't know to but suspect and say probably it's radiation caused, except one thing for real sure and that's the medical establishment has real strong training generally not to tell people they are dying UNLESS, they want to sell cancer treatment. I doubt they will autopsy any animal or fish and blame the cause of death on radiation even with the Pacific nearly empty of any life, they are not going to talk about radiation causing death. Nor are they going to tell you that the dentists that x-rayed children and people still growing teeth are the cause of them losing all their teeth by 50 years old in the United States. They are going to say sugar ruins the teeth, they aren't going to admit the part where sugar grows cancer and the little micro cancers in the teeth from x-radiation during growth (the first thing to mutate is developing cells) are the origin of the reason half the country wears dentures or get's implants and the dirt poor in Africa and Mexico have really good teeth for life because they never got dental x-rays. Cancer growth stinks always when they cut it out, it smells and so does bad breath because…

"If asked whether the Diablo Canyon Power Plant on the California coast could withstand the same size tsunami that had hit Japan, spokespeople were told not to reveal that NRC scientists were still studying that question. As for whether Diablo could survive an earthquake of the same magnitude, “We’re not so sure about, but again we are not talking about that,” said one email."

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